Dr. Alisa Glukhova

Alisa is a laboratory head in the Structural Biology Division at WEHI and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD (University of Michigan) was in Chemical Biology where she worked on solving structures of lipid-modifying enzymes using x-ray crystallography. During her post doc (Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences), she used x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, and pharmacology techniques to study different G protein-coupled receptors.

Research Interests

Alisa’s research focuses on understanding the structural and biochemical aspects of the Wnt signalling pathway, an important pharmacological target for treating many cancers. Using structural biology, her team captures snapshots of different stages in the Wnt signalling cascade to understand the atomic picture and gain insights into various aspects of signal transmission through Wnt pathways.